• In Ann Arbor and Grand Rapids, women -- many of them low income -- are learning to operate their own businesses.

• A bake shop in Lansing gives homeless women the chance to earn income and develop social skills.

• Girl Scouts participate in programs that will help them become leaders in the next century.

• In Detroit a program for women ex-offenders provides child care, transportation and even laundry facilities so women can meet family needs while they study for their high school diplomas.

• A professional women's organization in Presque Isle County offers women training in money management and financial planning.

The Michigan Women's Foundation was established in 1986 to channel your support to a range of excellent programs that serve women and girls. MWF is a partnership of donors who want their contributions to make a difference for women.

The Foundation supports women's and girls' organizations throughout Michigan in three ways:

• MWF provides direct financial support by making grants
  
• MWF offers management training and consulting to help strengthen women's nonprofits.
  
• MWF works to increase awareness of women's economic needs -- and of the fine work that is being done on behalf of women and girls.

The Michigan Women's Foundation makes grants to projects that:

• help women and girls -- especially those held back by poverty and racial barriers -- to become economically self sufficient
  
• develop leadership in girls
  
• provide financial education for women
  
• strengthen the management of women's nonprofit organizations.

Ann Arbor Community Development Corporation
Bay County YWCA, Bay City
Council on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault, Midland
Continuing Education for Women, University of Michigan, Flint
Detroit Teen Conference
Grand Rapids Women's Resource Center
Soundings, Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor Community Development Corporation
Community Outreach Neighborhood Activity, Lansing
Grand Rapids Opportunities for Women
Lansing YWCA
Michigan Metro Girl Scouts, Detroit
Oakland County Women's Survival Center, Pontiac
St. Luke A.M.E. Zion Church, Grand Rapids
Turning Point, Mt. Clemens
Women A.R.I.S.E., Detroit
ZONTA Club of Rogers City

Effective women's programs need resources -- people, time, money and skill. To help women's nonprofit in every part of Michigan learn to develop and increase these resource, MWF offers an ongoing program of management training and consulting.

Foundation-sponsored workshops provide training in fund raising, volunteer development, personnel and other management topics for staff and volunteers of women's and girls' organizations. Using the skills of professionals who volunteer their time as trainers and those of MWF staff, the Foundation offers these workshops throughout the state.

Workshops such as Developing an Annual Fund Raising Plan and Effective Board Membership have elicited enthusiastic responses:

MWF staff also provides individualized consultation to help agencies work on management issues in depth.

The Management Assistance Program allows MWF to assist dozens of women's nonprofit organizations each year.

Northern Lower Michigan
Bay County Women's Center, Bay City
Cadillac Family Resource Center
Crooked Tree Girl Scout Council, Traverse City
Council on domestic Violence & Sexual Assault, Midland

Upper Peninsula
Barbara Kettle Gundlach Shelter, Calumet
Caring House, Iron Mountain
Community Coordinated Child Care, Upper Peninsula
The Dove, Bessemer
Willow Hall, Calumet
Women's Center, Marquette

Mid-Michigan
Fair Winds Girl Scout Council, Flint
Gateway Community Services, East Lansing
Lansing Community College
Michigan Capital Girl Scout Council, Lansing
National Council on Alcoholism, Lansing
Planned Parenthood of Mid-Michigan, Lansing
Y Center, Inc., Jackson
YWCA of Greater Flint

Western Michigan
Eight Cap, Inc., Ionia
Every Women's Place, Muskegon
Grand Rapids Junior College
Kent/Grand Rapids Community Action Program
St. Joseph County Domestic Assault Shelter Coalition
Women's Center, Western Michigan University
Womyn's Concerns Office, CAA of Battle Creek
YWCA of Grand Rapids

Southeastern Michigan
Child & Parent Services, Birmingham
Children's Museum Friends, Detroit
Detroit Public Schools
Family Life Education Council, Grosse Pointe Woods
Sojourner Foundation
Washtenaw County Mental Health
Women's Health Program, Henry Ford College, Dearborn Heights
YWCA Downriver
YWCA of Pontiac

The Foundation collects and shares information about the state of women and girls in Michigan. Through this process, MWF acts as a catalyst to:

• Link the staff of developing women's projects with staff of established programs.
  
• Call attention to the work of women's nonprofits to help educate and involve the community.
  
• Provide information to public and private funders and policy makers to increase awareness of the unmet needs of women and girls.
  
• Encourage donors to direct their gifts to programs that help women and girls become self-sufficient.

Bobbie S. Butler
Equal Opportunity Director
Michigan Department of Corrections

Hilda Patricia Curran
Director, Office of Women and Work
Michigan Department of Labor

Julia D. Darlow
Partner, Dickinson, Wright, Moon, VanDusen & Freeman

Judith C. Frey
President, The Issue Network Group
Social/Political Activist

Sharon L. George
Assistant Director, Office of Student Life
Central Michigan University

Beth Goebel
Executive Director, Dyer-Ives Foundation

Glenda Greenwald
Publisher, Michigan Women

Mildred M. Jeffrey
Member, Board of Governors
Wayne State University

Helen W. Milliken
Community Leader and Activist

Marjorie Peebles-Meyers, M.D.
Chief Physician, Ford Motor Company (Retired)

Lana Pollack
State Senator, 18th District

Tish Preston-Stubbs
Senior Associate, Organizational Development
Henry Ford Health Care Corporation

Mary Jo Pulte
President/CEO, The Mitchell Corporation

Maureen P. Reilly
Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Tessie Baltrip Sharp
Assistant to the Provost
Wayne State University

Martha B. Warfield
Psychologist/Consultant

Susan Church
Executive Director

Lynn D. Parks
Project Director

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